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Landlord of Burned Bronx Building Sued to Stop Heat Monitoring

  Hundreds of tenants were displaced after a fire ripped through the top floor of 2910 Wallace Ave. in The Bronx, Jan. 14, 2025.  Credit:  Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY Ved Parkash had 10 properties put in a city housing agency program to track temperatures in chronically cold apartments. One just caught fire, leaving more than 250 homeless.  This article originally appeared in The City. By  Samantha Maldonado ,  Mia Hollie , and  Jonathan Custodio BRONX - The landlord whose Bronx building burned in a five-alarm fire Friday fought the city’s housing agency in court last year in an unsuccessful bid to exit a city program that requires monitoring for landlords with chronic heat complaints. Landlord Ved Parkash owns 2910 Wallace Avenue, a now burnt-out 98-unit apartment building in the Allerton neighborhood of The Bronx, just east of the New York Botanical Garden. That apartment building, along with nine others ...

Deliveryman Robbed of Cash, Pizza

Moped Riding Muggers 

The NYPD is searching for three men on mopeds who robbed a deliveryman of a pizza at knifepoint. -Composite photos from NYPD and File Photo
The NYPD is searching for three men on mopeds who robbed a deliveryman of a pizza at knifepoint. -Composite photos from NYPD and File Photo

By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

May 7, 2024


BRONX - Cops are looking for a trio of moped riding muggers who robbed a deliveryman at knifepoint. The crooks stole the man’s cash and pizza, cops said. 



At around 1 am on April 11, a 23-year-old male was walking with a pizza in the vicinity of West Mount Eden Avenue and Inwood Avenue. Cops said three men on two mopeds rode up on the victim. 



The men dismounted the moped and one showed off a knife, police said. The other two removed $300 off the victim as well as the pizza. The robbers then hopped on their mopeds and drove off in separate directions. 


No injuries were reported. 




The NYPD released surveillance video of the suspects. The first suspect is described as a male with a light complexion and medium build. He was last seen wearing a white puffy winter coat with a black balaclava underneath. He also wore black pants and black sneakers. 



The second suspect is described as a male with a light complexion and heavy build. He was last seen wearing a black hoodie and black knit cap. He also wore blue jeans with white and black sneakers. 


The last suspect is described as a male with a dark complexion and medium build. He was last seen wearing a black puffy winter coat and black Durag. He wore black jeans and black sneakers. 



Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls are strictly confidential.

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